[PATCH 08/16] ARM: bL_platsmp.c: make sure the GIC interface of a dying CPU is disabled

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Jan 14 12:24:01 EST 2013


On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 05:18:24PM +0000, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Will Deacon wrote:
> > Sorry! This case is more interesting though, because you also want to order
> > the cpu_if_down GIC write so that it completes before we do the power_off.
> 
> In this case I'm leaning toward removing that gic_cpu_if_down() 
> entirely.  I'm not convinced it is necessary, and if it is then we 
> probably have a bug somewhere else.

Or that :)

Will



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